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Some people never learn. 🤣
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#Lehrmann
#justice
#AusPol

Glen LeLievre cartoon:
A lion, wearing spectacles and holding a gavel, sitting on a desk in a cave strewn with bones frowns as it watches a hand reaching through a hole toward a dunce's cap.
"He came back for his hat"

December 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Drop Bear

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This post has been removed from the Times' web site. A later, edited version is archived here:
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I'm still not convinced that one can be both a Zionist and Jewish.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#antisemitism
#Zionism

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

[headline: To dislike certain ethnicities is racist; to see Jews as equal is antisemitic]
[italics: Understand the specialty of Antisemitism]
Jews are the only People based on an assignment. And their Divinely ordained task is to be exemplary to all of humanity. To be G*d’s ambassadors on earth, fighting for the good of everyone.

That means that when one says that Jews are just like everyone else, you're a bigot. You don’t need to look down on Jews to be Antisemitic.

And, the idea that Jews should be no different than Gentiles already implies opposing Jews. As if Jews should adjust to majority norms, integrate, and assimilate away.

December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

Too good to not share. I wouldn't put it past the Orange One.
More at:
www.quora.com/Would-the-UK...

#AusPol
#humour

Cass Cole
Jul 2
Would the UK sell Australia to the US?
Well, wait a minute with all your refusals. This could actually work.

The U.S. approaches Britain and offers to buy Australia.

Britain says it can’t do that, as Australia is not for sale.

U.S. says, in the American mindset, that anything is for sale for the right price.

Brit and Aussie humour are quite similar in many ways. So. Government heads get together, tired of all the uneducated U.S. comments. Now there is a Plan.

British government tells U.S. Government, that they will sell, but price is enormous.

No matter, America wants Australia, then they can go after Canada also.

Talks held, Trillions of dollars mentioned. Finally, big talks to be held.

Then U.S. told that without Canada, nothing can be done, and Canadians would not agree. So, sadly, deal is off.

Resulting epic screaming, pounding desks, etc all captured for TV. Hey, summer slow for news. Could keep the Commonwealth entertained all summer. Bet Charles gets a kick out of it too. But he can’t say because that’s not his forte to get involved.

There you have it.

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November 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

7/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

I can’t talk to you. You’re not capable of listening. The only ones who listen are those who have already gotten out of the pit, either by chance access to knowledge and openness of mind, or literally people who left the country. When I meet people who left, you immediately see how leaving our toxic space allowed them to be human again. It’s obvious in their speech itself.

There are still lots of family, friends, and people I love here. But it’s become impossible to talk. I hope it will be easier there, even though I don’t have many illusions. I don’t know how I’ll ever lower the mark of Cain of being Israeli at all. I’m ashamed of us, all of us.

But at least maybe it will be a bit easier to breathe. And maybe also to truly fight effectively. We’ll see. That’s my late-night rambling because I’m not really sleeping and apparently need to vent.

November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

6/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

We have a million such verbal barriers. Sentences, words, expressions, ways of talking that shape how we speak about reality and channel us not to listen, to be numb, and to be part of the evil machine we built. And to see that slowly all around you, to see how far you are from everyone, unable to talk at all.

And every conversation is full of them. It’s not just one barrier once in a while, no. They get unleashed one by one. I can start analyzing people’s tweets here and show you how one tweet contains like 4-5 such barriers that shut down the brain. You respond to one? They reply with 5 new ones. You can’t keep up, just dismantling one requires a whole focused conversation.

November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

5/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

There isn’t even the ability to recognize that the problem itself is the idea that violence is the only way. Which is, by itself, completely insane. There’s no such thing as living forever by the sword. There isn’t. You don’t live forever by the sword, you die by it. But this framing locks us out of having this conversation under the disguise of “okay, I’m open but what do you propose.”

It sounds so innocent and natural and “reasonable.” But it’s like a trap. It’s a word minefield, fake politeness, a pit that pulls you down and basically neutralizes the conversation. Instead of talking about how to solve a problem, we have violence taken for granted, and we’ll doubt it only if there’s some perfect magical proof beyond all reasonable doubt.

(And while we’re demanding from you a perfect magical solution, we’ll tell you that you’re the one living in La La Land and we’re the “realistic” violent ones “who understand reality.”)

November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

4/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

Anyone who’s been on that side of the conversation knows the pattern. Everything we say they reply “pfft” or “you’re naïve.” It’s not a dialogue, it’s a test, a critique. We, the ones opposing violence, have to prove ourselves. We can’t have a single flaw; we have to provide a full operational plan and prove every detail and flaw. But them? They don’t have to.

For Israelis, violence doesn’t need proof, explanation, justification, or evidence. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it’s the foundation. It’s the way. “What do you propose” is also recognition and acceptance of violence as normative, it also shifts the responsibility to the side of non-violence. In a normal world, it would be the opposite.

November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

3/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

“What do you propose” is a good example. It’s something people say every time someone tries to offer any alternative to violence. In every situation, scenario, violence is the only solution, the only way. Iran wants nukes? Fine, we have to bomb, no choice. Hamas has hostages? Bomb, no choice. Yemen is shooting at us? Bomb, no choice.

And if you just say “maybe it’s bad,” people ask “what do you propose instead.” That question is amazing. It contains so much. Mainly, it hides agreement. “What do you propose” means “violence is the only solution and for me to abandon it, I need an alternative solution.” And now the burden of proof lies on me, the one opposing violence.

November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

2/7

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

For two years I’ve watched my country commit one atrocity after another, and I’ve seen how everyone around me disappoints, stays silent, takes part, buys the lies. They refuse to oppose in any real way. It’s not the right-wing that broke me, not the Bibi supporters or the settler Judeo-Nazis. They’re monsters, but I already knew that.

It’s all the people I thought were on my side who have shown me that actually we live on a completely different planet of values, faith, and perception of reality. The macho-ism, militarism, and Jewish supremacy run so deep. Collective psychosis, it’s impossible to really talk to anyone, we have barriers. In language, in the way people speak, there are obstacles.

November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

1/7
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this translation. X wouldn't translate the full thread for me.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
@academic_la
I took the liberty of translating this Tweet of an Israeli explaining why the country is going down the tubes and he is leaving. A must read for what is going on there:
[quote]
Yuv 🤷🏾‍♀️
@hyuvii
עוד יומיים אני עולה למטוס עוזב את הארץ. זה נורא קשה לגדול במקום, לאהוב אותו, ואז לראות שהוא נורא. שבין כל האנשים הטובים המקום עצמו רקוב לגמרי עד היסוד. לראות את הריקבון הזה באנשים שאתה אוהב. נשברתי.
[end quote]
7:47 PM · Nov 29, 2025 · 245.1K Views

November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

Four decades ago, a Jewish historian put it thus:
web.archive.org/web/20171228...

By Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
I am the unknown Jew. Just as there are monuments to the unknown soldier and the unknown political prisoner, there should be a monument to the unknown Jew. We are Jews who oppose Zionism, who deplore Israeli oppression and aggression, who fear that Judaism may not survive Israel. We are probably a majority of Jews, but no one knows this because we have been effectively intimidated and suppressed by the Zionist minority.

November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal’s “Antisemitism Report” an attack on Australia’s “democracy” and “freedoms” – benefiting the state of Israel — and say it must be rejected.
www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/u...
#AusPol
#Zionism
#discrimination

We question the need for a Special Envoy role, particularly given that existing mechanisms, including those within the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) National Anti-Racism framework, provide a potential holistic, evidence-based approach to combating all forms of racism, including antisemitism.

We call on the government to:
* Reject the ASECA Plan — it poses a threat to human rights, democratic freedoms, and social cohesion,
* Implement a comprehensive, whole-of-society strategy to address racism and religious discrimination, building on the AHRC’s existing work,
* Do not adopt the divisive IHRA definition of antisemitism, which conflates antisemitism with criticism of the State of Israel and the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination,
* Rescind the IHRA definition where it has already been adopted, * Do not adopt any specific definition of antisemitism. Specific definitions of racism are not used with other forms of racism, and are unnecessary,
* Do not grant the Special Envoy any enforcement or monitoring powers, nor endorse any enforcement framework that restricts free expression, academic freedom, or artistic and journalistic work.

November 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

www.smh.com.au/national/har...

“YOU COULD GO OUT AND GIVE A MILLION DOLLARS
T0 A CHARITY TOMORROW TO HELP THE HOMELESS.
YOU COULD ARGUE THAT IT IS JUST WASTED.
THEY ARE NOT PUTTING ANYTHING BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY.

IT MIGHT BE A CALLOUS WAY OF PUTTING IT BUT
WHAT ARE THEY DOING? YOU ARE HELPING A WHOLE
HEAP OF NO-HOPERS TO SURVIVE FOR NO GOOD REASON.
THEY ARE JUST A DRAG ON THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

GERRY HARVEY

SOURCE: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/20/1226770649462.html

November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Drop Bear

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Not really surprising, I guess.

Screenshot from
Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
[image:
Zionist Federation of Australia
@ZionistFedAus
Date joined
December 2011
Account based in
Israel ]

November 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

Apparently, the Site That Shall Not Be Named introduced a handy feature that revealed a bit too much.

November 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

I've long thought of Trump as Putin's pleasure-boy.
🤔
An image that's probably best not contemplated too closely. 😑

"How do you say “Thanksgiving” in Russian?"
archive.is/hR7F7
Image credit: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

David Pope
12 January 2023

* "How good is the market!"
On a jetty, two police officers confront two men. The larger man wears dark glasses and a hoodie over a baseball cap. Between them is a tightly bound partially naked man with feet set in concrete and a bag over his head. The smaller man wears dark glasses and a beanie.

Smaller man displays a certificate:
"Relax, officer! What looks like a potential homicide has actually been [bold underlined]OFFSET[end formatting], with the purchase of tradeable [bold]LIFE CREDITS[end bold] from our local surf life-saving club!"

Male officer:
"They'll finally be able to buy that new rescue boat!"

Female officer:
"Looks like we're on track for Net-zero murders by 2050!"

Bound man:
"MMFGHMNGNFH"*

November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Drop Bear

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5/5
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#AusPol
#USpol
#ChildAbuse
#suicide
#assassination

And why should they? Jeffrey Epstein - the man at the center of all of this - allegedly killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while on suicide watch, with broken cameras and sleeping guards. The official ruling was suicide. The Attorney General called it a “perfect storm of screw-ups.” Nobody believed it then, and that’s precisely why nobody believes this now.

When the first witness dies under suspicious circumstances and you’re told it’s suicide, you’re skeptical. When the second one does, you’re suspicious. By the third, you’re keeping a running list.

Virginia’s attorney, Karrie Louden, initially said there were “big question marks” about the death, which sent conspiracy theories into overdrive. She later clarified that she didn’t believe it was suspicious and that the coroner would determine cause of death based on evidence. That clarification barely made a dent in the public conversation, probably because by then the narrative was already running.

It’s not hard to understand why when Virginia Giuffre - who’d explicitly said “if I die, it wasn’t suicide” - turns up dead with an official cause of death as suicide, people’s bullshit detectors went off. Not because they have evidence of foul play, but because they have decades of evidence that the powerful protect themselves and the system protects the powerful.

The most generous read is this: Virginia was genuinely suicidal because her life had become unbearable, and her death is a tragedy that shows how abuse victims continue to suffer long after the abuse ends. The most cynical read is this: she knew too much, she wouldn’t stop talking, and someone made sure she stopped.

I don’t know what happened in that farmhouse. Nobody outside the investigation does. But I know what it looks like when authorities expect people to trust them without giving them any reason to. It looks exactly like this.

November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

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#AusPol
#USpol
#ChildAbuse
#suicide
#assassination
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But here’s where it gets complicated, because Virginia’s life in those final weeks was genuinely falling apart. She was going through a contentious divorce. She’d accused her husband Robert of domestic violence. He’d filed a restraining order against her in February. She was prevented from seeing her three children. Days before her death, he’d allegedly violated the order, or she had - the details are murky - but what’s clear is that she was separated from her kids and fighting a custody battle.

That’s the kind of circumstance that actually does lead to suicide. Trauma survivors who lose access to their children, who are isolated, who are in crisis - the statistics are grim. Her own family released a statement saying “the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

So you’ve got two competing narratives. One says: woman who explicitly warned she wasn’t suicidal, who’d threatened powerful predators, who had a suspicious car accident, turns up dead right when documents about Epstein were being discussed again. The other says: severely traumatized abuse survivor in the middle of losing her children and fleeing domestic violence reached a breaking point.

Both could explain what happened. Only one has evidence.

The problem is we don’t actually have the evidence that would settle this. There’s no public coroner’s report. No autopsy findings. No toxicology. No timeline of her final hours.

We have a family statement and a police department saying “early indication” suggests nothing suspicious, which is the kind of phrasing that does exactly nothing to calm down people who already don’t trust official narratives.

November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

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#AusPol
#USpol
#ChildAbuse
#suicide
#assassination
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Western Australia Police had a different version. They called it a “minor collision” with about $2,000 in damage and “no reported injuries.” CNN reported she was hospitalized but not in life-threatening condition, and she hadn’t told hospital staff what caused her injuries.

So either Virginia was catastrophically injured and dying, or the accident was minor and she wasn’t. Both things can’t be true. The discrepancy matters because if you’re setting up a suicide to look inevitable, you’d probably want some public documentation of declining health and despair.

Then there’s her father. Sky Roberts went on Piers Morgan’s show in May and said flat-out: “There’s no way that she committed suicide. Somebody got to her.”

He talked about how strong she was, how much she had to live for, how she was helping other survivors. He’s her father. He’s grieving. He also hadn’t spoken to her in years, which he attributed to her trying to protect him from the powerful people she’d crossed.

The thing that makes what he said suspicious is that in the book - she apparently wrote about her traumatic childhood, including incest and severe neglect, and her time in a troubled teen facility. I have not made it to that part yet - but I’m already suspicious of her father’s account.

The thing is, Virginia had already crossed a lot of powerful people. She’d accused a British prince of raping her when she was 17. Prince Andrew paid her millions to settle the lawsuit in 2022, with no admission of guilt but a very large check that sure looked like an admission of something. She’d provided testimony that helped convict Ghislaine Maxwell. She’d named names. She’d refused to shut up.

November 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM

Drop Bear

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#AusPol
#USpol
#ChildAbuse
#suicide
#assassination
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Rachel Hurley
07:30 15 November 2025

I started reading Virginia Giuffre’s biography today, because while digging through these Epstein Estate Files - I wanted to get a better sense of her. It’s called “Nobody’s Girl,” and any music fans may get the reference…

Anyway, I barely got through the first chapter before I decided that I needed to know more about her suicide before continuing. So, in classic fashion, I fell down a rabbit hole.

You probably heard she died in April 2025. The family said suicide. Australian police said not suspicious. And if you’re thinking this sounds familiar - that we’ve been here before with inconvenient witnesses who knew too much about powerful men - you’re not alone.

I’m not here to tell you what happened in that farmhouse in Western Australia. I don’t have the coroner’s report. Nobody does, because it hasn’t been released. What I can tell you is why millions of people looked at the official story and said “absolutely the fuck not.”

Let’s start with what Virginia herself said, back in 2019. She posted on social media: “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. If something happens to me - in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.”
That’s not subtle.

That’s a woman who spent years accusing Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew of sex trafficking, explicitly telling the world that if she turns up dead, don’t believe the suicide story. Six years later, she’s found unresponsive at her home. Cause of death: suicide. Early indication: not suspicious.

You can see why people have questions.

Here’s what makes it worse. Three weeks before she died, Virginia was in a car accident. She posted from a hospital bed, face covered in bruises, saying a school bus hit her car at 110 kilometers per hour. She said she’d gone into kidney failure. Doctors gave her four days to live.

November 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

1/5
When someone who is inconvenient to the rich & powerful dies an unnatural death, there are bound to be doubts.
www.facebook.com/itsashameabo...

#AusPol
#USpol
#ChildAbuse
#suicide
#assassination
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Poster-style image of a blond woman. In the background, a mock-up of a newspaper with the headline:
VIRGINIA GIUFFRE.
DEATH RULED AS SUICIDE

November 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Drop Bear

@drop-bear.bsky.social

"… a "work from Tel Aviv" position"
🤔
How many Australian politicians' hearts and minds are not in Australia?
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism
#propaganda